#elmore wood

[dailypsyren]

[himetsuri]

another call 2 The Future is in Your Hands cover

[vintagerpg]

On Monday, remember how I said FR1: Waterdeep and the North is really just about Waterdeep? Well, FR5: The Savage Frontier (1988), released the following year, is basically the “and the North.” In form, though, it pairs with FR2: Moonshae as a pretty typical Gazeteer-style sourcebook, full of lore, notable locales and interesting inhabitants. Unlike that volume, this one contains explicit adventure hooks, which are a nice feature.

While a lot of the material here is derived from Greenwood’s notes, I think it is interesting that TSR trusted this book to a freelancer, even if that freelancer was RPG heavyweight Jennell Jaquays (who penned Dark Tower and Caverns of Thracia, and co-authored Griffin Mountain, among a pile of other important RPG books). FR5 covers all the major spots on the Sword Coast, probably the most visited region of the Realms — Icewind Dale (home of Drizzt), Mithril Hall, the Spine of the World, Luskan, Neverwinter, Hellgate Keep and more are profiled here pretty much for the first time (Icewind Dale, of course, had already debuted in R.A. Salvatore’s novel The Crystal Shard, though). I can’t help but wonder if the enduring appeal of these places is partly down to Jaquays’ influence.

There is some weird stuff, too. I noticed, probably because it was so fresh, that Doc from I12: The Egg of the Phoenix is hanging out here, despite that other module taking place in Greyhawk (you read that post way back in March, but I wrote it yesterday). I looked up Shannon Appelcline’s notes for the book on Drivethru and he has no explanation for this, but he does note that Jaquays also recycled Amelior Amanitas and Jingleshod the Iron Axeman from her excellent DragonQuest module The Enchanted Wood (1981), which I really should post about one of these days.

Great Larry Elmore cover with his trademark snow. What a bunch of weirdos, right? Skull guy and mage guy and blue guy and orc guy make quite the group. Interiors are by Esteban Maroto. They aren’t bad, but they seem undercooked — this is probably the first instance of underwhelming art in a Forgotten Realms book, but it sure won’t be the last.

[shit-taster-connoisseur]

For the character thing, how about Penny from Gumball?

favorite thing about them:

Everything. I love especially her design to her character arcs and personality, especially the clear change we see in her being more rhan that of some loser's girlfriend/crush, but an actualy character we get to appreciate that has awesome shit going for her🔥🔥

Also love how mean she can get

least favorite thing about them:

She doesn't have enough episodes, dedicate a whole season to her i say

favorite line:

"Age doesn't matter when it comes to love."

"Legally, it kinda does."

This scene killed me

brOTP

Her and Darwin, and mostly all of the elmore girls

OTP

HER AND GUMBALL!!

nOTP

Her and Darwin, besides them noone else!

Random headcanon

Trans MTF allegory

unpopular opinion

I liked her design before The Shell

song i associate with them

I/ me / myself by Will Woods

(Less in the lyrics and more vibes tbh)

favorite picture of them

[thcophagy]

open to: @angeldcgs.

featuring: charlotte "cookie" katz, twenty-nine, bisexual, child tv star.

plot: from the age of eight to thirteen, cookie was on a top-rated network television show called "down elmore road" where she played the daughter in the classically american nuclear family. after the actor who played her father had a mental breakdown and attempted to shoot up the studio, with cookie surviving only because she had been out of her dressing room getting snacks, leading her to hide under the craft service table, she has been living in the shadow of the event, never banking another acting job again with the baggage her name brought along with it and relying on interviews, true crime junkies and nostalgia baiters to keep her name in relevance. one night, she stumbles across someone trying to rob her house.

there was part of cookie that was surprised no one had tried to break into her house sooner. it was an old building, all large, echoey rooms with dark wood, bought with the money her parents had kept in her savings while she'd been working on the show, and filled to the brim with every piece of merchandise and memorabilia ever produced about herself or her one acting gig. figures, posters, stationery sets, books and magazines, every newspaper clipping with every review the show ever got in its five-year runtime; for anyone who entered, it would be impossible to leave without thinking cookie was the show's biggest fan. that wasn't the case though, in fact, she had plenty of problems with it. always had, even when she was young. the hoarding was just a means to prove her relevance, even if it was only to herself. it wasn't like she had many visitors anymore. that was why when she'd awoken in the middle of the night to the floorboards down in the living room creaking, the sound flowing through the house like music in a symphony hall, there had been part of cookie that had been excited. if they were there to rob her, well, she'd make sure they regretted ever coming up with such a stupid idea because if there was one thing that she cared about more than anything, it was her collection, but if they were a fan... it'd been a while since her last interview and she'd been feeling low on affection, a crazy super fan might have been exactly what she needed. it had been easy enough to sneak up on the beast of a man lurking in her living room, knocking him to the ground with one solid hit across the head with the weightiest of all her momentos. she wasn't all that strong but with a lot of effort she managed to get his limp body onto a chair where she then began to tie him up with old rope she'd previously used to try and replicate the rope-swing she'd had in the yard set all those years ago. "there you go, mister, all nice and snug." with one finally tug of the rope around his wrist and cookie was satisfied with her work. she couldn't risk not restraining him, especially not after laying eyes on him. a man like that, well he could be dangerous, it didn't matter what he was there for and cookie had to focus on herself- as if she ever did anything else. "not too tight, is it? it'll burn if you wiggle too much." she straightened up, the cleavage she'd been flashing him accidentally from down the front of her nightgown disappearing as she took a moment to observe her work. "alrighty!" with that, she sat herself down on the floor by his feet, legs crossed beneath her and her dainty hands tucked under her chin. "so, you wanna gimme an explanation for all this? can't tell you how scary it was waking up to hear someone trudging 'bout my home... i think i'm owed an apology for that first and foremost."

[wankerwatch]

Commons Vote

On: Passenger Railway Services Bill (Public Ownership) Bill: Committee: Amendment 14

Ayes: 111 (95.5% Con, 4.5% DUP) Noes: 362 (97.0% Lab, 2.5% Ind, 0.6% SDLP) Absent: ~177

Day's business papers: 2024-9-3

Likely Referenced Bill: Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill

Description: A Bill to make provision for passenger railway services to be provided by public sector companies instead of by means of franchises.

Originating house: Commons Current house: Commons Bill Stage: 3rd reading

Individual Votes:

Ayes

Conservative (106 votes)

Alan Mak Alberto Costa Alex Burghart Alicia Kearns Alison Griffiths Andrew Bowie Andrew Murrison Andrew Rosindell Andrew Snowden Aphra Brandreth Ashley Fox Ben Obese-Jecty Ben Spencer Bernard Jenkin Blake Stephenson Bob Blackman Bradley Thomas Caroline Dinenage Caroline Johnson Charlie Dewhirst Chris Philp Claire Coutinho Damian Hinds Danny Kruger David Davis David Mundell David Reed David Simmonds Desmond Swayne Edward Argar Edward Leigh Gagan Mohindra Gareth Bacon Gareth Davies Gavin Williamson Geoffrey Cox George Freeman Greg Smith Gregory Stafford Harriet Cross Harriett Baldwin Helen Whately Iain Duncan Smith Jack Rankin James Cartlidge James Cleverly James Wild Jeremy Hunt Jeremy Wright Jerome Mayhew Jesse Norman Joe Robertson John Cooper John Glen John Hayes John Lamont John Whittingdale Joy Morrissey Julia Lopez Julian Lewis Karen Bradley Katie Lam Kemi Badenoch Kevin Hollinrake Kieran Mullan Kit Malthouse Laura Trott Lewis Cocking Lincoln Jopp Louie French Mark Francois Mark Garnier Mark Pritchard Martin Vickers Matt Vickers Mel Stride Mike Wood Mims Davies Neil Hudson Neil O'Brien Neil Shastri-Hurst Nick Timothy Nigel Huddleston Oliver Dowden Patrick Spencer Peter Bedford Peter Fortune Priti Patel Rebecca Harris Rebecca Paul Rebecca Smith Richard Fuller Richard Holden Robbie Moore Robert Jenrick Saqib Bhatti Sarah Bool Shivani Raja Simon Hoare Steve Barclay Stuart Anderson Stuart Andrew Suella Braverman Tom Tugendhat Victoria Atkins Wendy Morton

Democratic Unionist Party (5 votes)

Carla Lockhart Gavin Robinson Gregory Campbell Jim Shannon Sammy Wilson

Noes

Labour (351 votes)

Abena Oppong-Asare Abtisam Mohamed Adam Jogee Adam Thompson Afzal Khan Al Carns Alan Campbell Alan Gemmell Alan Strickland Alex Baker Alex Ballinger Alex Barros-Curtis Alex Davies-Jones Alex Mayer Alex McIntyre Alex Norris Alex Sobel Alice Macdonald Alison Hume Alison McGovern Alistair Strathern Allison Gardner Amanda Hack Amanda Martin Andrew Cooper Andrew Gwynne Andrew Lewin Andrew Pakes Andrew Ranger Andrew Western Andy MacNae Andy McDonald Andy Slaughter Angela Eagle Anna Dixon Anna Gelderd Anna McMorrin Anna Turley Anneliese Dodds Anneliese Midgley Antonia Bance Ashley Dalton Baggy Shanker Bambos Charalambous Barry Gardiner Bayo Alaba Beccy Cooper Becky Gittins Ben Coleman Ben Goldsborough Bill Esterson Blair McDougall Brian Leishman Callum Anderson Calvin Bailey Carolyn Harris Cat Smith Catherine Atkinson Catherine Fookes Catherine McKinnell Catherine West Charlotte Nichols Chi Onwurah Chris Bloore Chris Curtis Chris Elmore Chris Evans Chris Hinchliff Chris Kane Chris McDonald Chris Murray Chris Vince Chris Ward Chris Webb Christian Wakeford Claire Hazelgrove Claire Hughes Clive Betts Clive Efford Clive Lewis Connor Naismith Connor Rand Damien Egan Dan Aldridge Dan Carden Dan Jarvis Dan Norris Dan Tomlinson Daniel Francis Danny Beales Darren Paffey Dave Robertson David Burton-Sampson David Pinto-Duschinsky David Smith David Taylor Dawn Butler Debbie Abrahams Deirdre Costigan Derek Twigg Diana Johnson Douglas Alexander Douglas McAllister Elaine Stewart Ellie Reeves Elsie Blundell Emily Darlington Emily Thornberry Emma Foody Emma Lewell-Buck Euan Stainbank Fabian Hamilton Fleur Anderson Florence Eshalomi Frank McNally Gareth Snell Gareth Thomas Gen Kitchen Gerald Jones Gill Furniss Gill German Gordon McKee Graeme Downie Graham Stringer Grahame Morris Gregor Poynton Gurinder Singh Josan Harpreet Uppal Heidi Alexander Helen Hayes Helena Dollimore Henry Tufnell Ian Lavery Ian Murray Imogen Walker Irene Campbell Jack Abbott Jacob Collier Jade Botterill Jake Richards James Asser James Frith James Naish Janet Daby Jayne Kirkham Jeevun Sandher Jeff Smith Jen Craft Jenny Riddell-Carpenter Jess Asato Jess Phillips Jessica Morden Jessica Toale Jim Dickson Jim McMahon Jo Platt Jo Stevens Jo White Joani Reid Jodie Gosling Joe Morris Joe Powell Johanna Baxter John Grady John Healey John Slinger John Whitby Jon Pearce Jon Trickett Jonathan Brash Jonathan Davies Jonathan Hinder Josh Dean Josh Fenton-Glynn Josh MacAlister Josh Newbury Julia Buckley Julie Minns Juliet Campbell Justin Madders Karin Smyth Karl Turner Kate Osamor Kate Osborne Katie White Katrina Murray Keir Mather Kerry McCarthy Kevin Bonavia Kim Johnson Kim Leadbeater Kirith Entwistle Kirsteen Sullivan Kirsty McNeill Laura Kyrke-Smith Lauren Edwards Lauren Sullivan Laurence Turner Lee Barron Lee Pitcher Leigh Ingham Lewis Atkinson Liam Byrne Liam Conlon Lilian Greenwood Lillian Jones Linsey Farnsworth Liz Kendall Liz Twist Lizzi Collinge Lloyd Hatton Lola McEvoy Louise Haigh Louise Jones Lucy Powell Lucy Rigby Luke Akehurst Luke Charters Luke Murphy Luke Myer Margaret Mullane Marie Tidball Mark Ferguson Mark Hendrick Mark Sewards Mark Tami Markus Campbell-Savours Marsha De Cordova Martin Rhodes Mary Glindon Mary Kelly Foy Matt Bishop Matt Rodda Matt Turmaine Matt Western Matthew Patrick Matthew Pennycook Maureen Burke Meg Hillier Melanie Onn Melanie Ward Miatta Fahnbulleh Michael Payne Michael Shanks Michael Wheeler Michelle Scrogham Michelle Welsh Mike Amesbury Mike Kane Mike Reader Mike Tapp Mohammad Yasin Nadia Whittome Natalie Fleet Natasha Irons Naushabah Khan Navendu Mishra Neil Coyle Neil Duncan-Jordan Nesil Caliskan Nia Griffith Nicholas Dakin Nick Smith Nick Thomas-Symonds Noah Law Oliver Ryan Olivia Bailey Olivia Blake Pam Cox Pamela Nash Pat McFadden Patricia Ferguson Patrick Hurley Paul Davies Paul Foster Paul Waugh Paula Barker Paulette Hamilton Perran Moon Peter Dowd Peter Kyle Peter Lamb Peter Swallow Phil Brickell Polly Billington Preet Kaur Gill Rachael Maskell Rachel Blake Rachel Hopkins Rachel Taylor Richard Baker Richard Quigley Rosie Duffield

Rupa Huq Ruth Cadbury Ruth Jones Sadik Al-Hassan Sally Jameson Sam Carling Sam Rushworth Samantha Dixon Samantha Niblett Sarah Champion Sarah Coombes Sarah Edwards Sarah Hall Sarah Jones Sarah Owen Sarah Sackman Satvir Kaur Scott Arthur Sean Woodcock Seema Malhotra Sharon Hodgson Shaun Davies Simon Lightwood Simon Opher Siobhain McDonagh Sojan Joseph Sonia Kumar Stella Creasy Stephanie Peacock Stephen Kinnock Stephen Timms Steve Race Steve Witherden Steve Yemm Sureena Brackenridge Tahir Ali Taiwo Owatemi Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi Tim Roca Toby Perkins Tom Collins Tom Hayes Tom Rutland Tonia Antoniazzi Tony Vaughan Torcuil Crichton Torsten Bell Tracy Gilbert Tristan Osborne Uma Kumaran Valerie Vaz Vicky Foxcroft Warinder Juss Wes Streeting Will Stone Yasmin Qureshi Yuan Yang Zubir Ahmed

Independent (9 votes)

Apsana Begum Ayoub Khan Imran Hussain Jeremy Corbyn John McDonnell Rebecca Long Bailey Richard Burgon Shockat Adam Zarah Sultana

Social Democratic & Labour Party (2 votes)

Claire Hanna Colum Eastwood

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Post-Fall Falls False Starts- Chapter 20: The Confrontation Part 2: $15 Bill-ieve It Or Not

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The time for subtlety, subterfuge, and inconspicuousness was behind Sarah, albeit it was closing on her like only impending regret could. She dodged a couple of tourists on their way out (who then did double-takes), knocked down another couple of tourists (and toppled a guy's ice cream cone- he did a triple-take), and threw open the door, triggering the bell… and plunging the gift shop thereafter into silence. All eyes were on her, and her eyes were on Rob, who was here! Thank goodness, he was here! And he had a shirt from the shop rolled up under his arm. His gaze met hers several seconds after the other shoppers'.

"Hi, Sarah," he said, apparently unaware of the tension so thick you could beat it into submission. She ran up to him with drops of maybe-sweat maybe-melted-ice-cream all over her face.

"ROB", she scream-whispered through clenched teeth, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?"

"Don't act like I'm being sketchy. I'm just here to buy a shirt."

"…You didn't even come in through the museum?"

He grabbed her hands in his own and his eyes sparkled for just a moment before shutting in happiness. Both of them shut at the same time.

"Check this out," he said, and he unrolled the shirt. It read, 'I GOT MYSTERY-ED OUT AT THE MYSTERY SHACK!'

Sarah looked from it to Rob a few times.

"Uhh, that's nice, but you don't have any money, right?"

"I have a $15 dollar bill, and as luck would have it, this shirt is on sale! 14.87! Plus tax! And it goes with my hair."

"If you hand them that Elmore money, they're gonna think it's counterfeit, and they might call the cops on you. And also you're already wanted."

"Elmore money?" he raised an eyebrow, one eyebrow.

"You know," gestured Sarah frantically, "Elmore? Where you came from? Where we came from?"

He pinched the bridge of his nose and scrunched it up like he was lost in deep thought. The gift shop was coming back to life by now, though several potential customers had left- and left the goods they were looking at behind.

"That reminds me," Rob said, losing track of his train of thought in favor of another, less concerning one. "I made my choice, and I'm really happy with it."

"Your choice?"

With that, Rob slid on the shirt over his head, making sure to keep the barcode accessible. He made jazz hands. Very un-Rob. Sarah would be willing to pay him to never see him do that again.

"My choice is, it doesn't matter where I came from, because I've decided I'm going to embrace the here…" he pointed to the Mystery Shack name on his shirt- "and the now." He pointed to a watch drawn on his wrist with what looked like permanent marker. And then, to get rid of any plausible deniability (read: hope), he clarified, "Whatever memories I had when I arrived here, they clearly made me miserable. I'm not gonna try and get them back."

"You-"

"Tell me, was I a troubled guy with a troubled past?"

No way could she lie to him, so she thought of a way to sugarcoat the truth. "Troubled is cool and mysterious," she said.

"Cool and mysterious for you, troubling for the actual person being troubled."

"Without them you're like a shell of yourself! And that troubles me!"

"What were you, my girlfriend?"

"No! I hadn't even spoken to you at all before we met in the woods!"

"Then why does it matter to you that I hang on to all that old pain?" Rob seized her by the shoulders, and for just a moment Sarah could see that old anger resurfacing, the most Rob-like emotion he had displayed since putting on the suit. "You've got to be the most selfish, most…"

His grip weakened. His anger faded. His voice trailed off.

"Sorry, I almost got heated there."

"No, nononono!" Sarah shook rob by the shoulders until his eyeballs jiggled. "You're an angry guy! Get heated! Please, get heated! You're forgetting who you are!"

"Who I was. So what if I'm less angry? This is gonna be my fresh start. And to think I thought you'd be supportive! Now, if you'll excuse me."

He walked away from Sarah and scrunched up his shirt so he could put the bar code on the checkout counter in front of a stupefied Wendy. Sarah watched with tunnel-vision as he reached into his backpack and rummaged around for the $15 bill. Before he pulled it out, he turned to Sarah and delivered a one-hit KO.

"Don't worry. It's better this way," he said.

And then he turned back, pulled out his money, and slid it across the counter with one finger all suave-like. Several things were happening, and Sarah's tunnel vision had all but evaporated in favor of a hundred different new worries. A tour group had returned from the museum, headed by a very tense (and clearly trying-not-to-look-tense) Stan; they had apparently been watching the conflict go down, though she didn't know for how long. Either Rob was taking an absurdly long time to slide the money over or things in Sarah's head were just moving in slow motion.

"Before you ask," Rob said, confidence in his voice, "it's not counterf-"

"GET YOUR FINGER OFF OF ME!" rang out a strained voice so loud the eyes of several tourists (and, momentarily, Stan himself) went straight to the intercom. Then there was a chomping sound followed shortly by Rob letting out a pained yelp, glitching out a little, and tugging his finger away.

The events of the next 20 seconds felt like several minutes: the $15 bill sat up, wrenched its arms and legs from where they sat folded into its crumpled body, dashed for the edge of the counter, did a graceful leap off of it like a diving board, and hit the ground running for its life- the life that nobody had even known it had until just now. All but two eyes in the room (Sarah's being the exception) were full of bewilderment, and before Sarah even knew what she was doing, she grabbed Rob's oversized sleeve with one hand, scooped up the running cash with the other, and dragged both of them out into the woods. The gift shop door swung shut behind her. When the bell rang to signal their departure, it was like every single onlooker broke out of a deep trance, and, in what must have been an enormous quirk of fate, nobody tried to follow Sarah out.

-

Stan adjusted his glasses, cleared his throat, and held out a mason jar to the waiting crowd of befuddled onlookers. "You may now tip the guide!" he exclaimed like a minister at the altar, and when only one person reached for their wallet, he realized he had to explain the unexplainable. He waited for a raised hand. A young woman in a Hawaiian shirt spoke first.

"Was that-"

"Part of the experience, part of the experience," he reassured, waving his hand dismissively. "Look, if you're asking yourself, 'what the heck was that?' or 'who ever heard of a 15 dollar bill?' or 'did somebody spike the drinking water?', that's all just the Mystery Shack doing its job! If you don't leave confused and disoriented, what's the "mystery" in the name for? I'll tell ya- nothing. It's called surrealism, folks. It's a statement. And if you don't like it, you can donate to our Better Ideas Fund!"

He whipped out another mason jar. A few more tourists reached for money.

"That's right, folks, it's for charity," he lied. As things calmed down and settled back into their usual rhythm, he made a mental note in mental big red angry marker to ask the kids if they had anything to do with what just happened.

-

"UNHAND ME! I'LL SUE! I'LL SUE!"

Back at the art clearing, Sarah pinned the 15 dollars to the ground with one hand. Rob was muttering, 'what the heck was that?' and 'did someone spike the drinking water?' with a thousand-yard stare on his face, walking in place as Sarah held onto him via his shirt.

"You've been alive this whole time?" Sarah barked.

"OF COURSE! I was knocked out for a while- it felt like the universe broke up around me or something! I don't know what it was, but it was intense! Nonetheless, I woke up to discover I had been kidnapped! By a bloodthirsty human! And a bloodthirsty ice cream cone! Or, not bloodthirsty- money-hungry!"

"Nobody's eating you!"

"It's a metaphor, for Pete's sake!"

Sarah lightened her pressure a little.

"It was probably an earnest mistake. Right, Rob?"

"Who… what… where…" mumbled Rob.

"Never mind him. But I know him, and he wouldn't-" she remembered that he had kidnapped a woman once- "I mean, okay, maybe you were kidnapped, but you're money! You're more of a thing than a person!"

"You're one to talk!"

"Yeah, fair enough. Do you, uh, have a name?"

She removed her hand from him entirely and he sat up and straightened himself out with that luxurious crisp money noise.

"Bill," he said.

[kaidynsarell]

🦋🫧Sanguinis et Omnium Fractorum🫧🦋

Chapter 3-Of Cracks and Fine Lies

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Pairing- Sebastian Sallow x Female OC

Rating - This story is rated overall 🔞(ch 3 is SFW)

Tags- Discussions of terminal Illness, self-harm.

The full chapter can be found below the cut(3.5k words

Ongoing Fic

Chapters 1-6 Are available on WP and AO3

The walls of the Great Hall did not find Clara amongst the throng of students that breakfasted the following morning. Nor was she found amongst those whose aching heads still lingered beneath the bedclothes to coax every morsel of sleep from ticking hands. Instead, the soles of her overly scuffed boots clipped hurried footsteps toward the Hospital Wing. Echoing noisily against the flagstones in the near-deserted corridors, to be witnessed only by the numerous moving portraits and the occasional ghost.

The nightmare was not new, nor were the headaches that accompanied them. Though they'd both worsened in recent years.

It was a parasite that had clung to the edges of her consciousness as long as memory had lived within her mind. Always the same confused mass of distorted images lingering in the dark corners of her dreams, only to show its face when she was least prepared.

Each time left her just as terrified as the last, and each time left her just as confused.

Between that and the wash of scarlet-stained memories from Fifth year, a carefully regulated regimen of Dreamless Sleep Draughts via Nurse Blainey had become her only solace from an otherwise steady flow of nightmares.

Even so, the potion was not readily available.

Difficult to brew and disastrous to get wrong, the potion required ingredients that were not only highly regulated but also incredibly expensive, and a severe lack of galleons did not lend to obtaining the precious vials of swirling indigo and cerulean.

She'd been forced to forego the potions during the summer holidays, resigned to what sleep she could achieve with her Grandmother's chamomile tea and fresh bundles of lavender. It wasn't much, but if Clara couldn't find love tucked between the careful stitches in her clothing, she would find it curled within the steam and brushed across the hand-painted peonies that decorated the delicate porcelain in shades of the palest pink.

The tea had never helped the nightmares much, but she'd told Gran it did, if only because it had made the older woman smile. Maybe if Clara had said it enough, she could have convinced herself of it as well.

She'd lied every night until the last cup of tea Gran had made her, just weeks before the start of term. The delicate pink peonies had shattered in shards of glass across the kitchen floor before Beatrice Elmore fell to the ground, and only the swirls of wood grain had tasted the chamomile that dripped from the fragments.

There was no enemy- no goblin or Dark Wizard from whom she could exact revenge- just an old woman's heart counting the last of its beats. Clara couldn't destroy time or old age, and as she'd learned with Professor Fig, no spell could reverse death.

Clara didn't drink tea anymore.

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Frosted glass muted the shafts of early morning sunlight, breaking through the windows to wash over the soft green and blue linens and kiss the wooden arches of the peaked ceiling.

The flagstones were chipped here, spiderwebbed with cracks, and crumbled along the corners. It was odd to have floors in such disrepair. Clara might have suspected they belonged to the dungeons or a secret passage.

She would not have expected the Hospital Wing.

Then again, no one visited this room because they were completely whole. They were all a little cracked and crumbling.

Perhaps the castle could sense it.

Nurse Blainey was not in the room.

Instead, a young woman perched on the edge of the bed closest to the nurse's office—where Clara could make out the faint murmur of voices from behind the closed door. Gentle hints of auburn ignited in the soft light and curled amid the darker waves of cinnamon brown that framed the woman's thin face, and Clara could just make out the light sprinkling of freckles that had never counted as many as her brother's.

Confusion poked at the place she kept her worry, and only the stabbing pain behind her eyes distracted her from the rush of cold weightlessness that accompanied the uneven slamming against her ribs. All thoughts of Dreamless Sleep Draught momentarily banished to the corners of her consciousness.

Anne shouldn’t be here

The brunette had all but refused to go to a hospital since before the end of Fifth year- since the Healers had given up on her, and hope had burned to destruction in Sebastian's hands. Ominis had nearly been on his knees before she had allowed him to hire a Home Care Mediwitch who could check in each week to monitor her condition and replenish the stock of potions that fought and often failed to mitigate her symptoms fully.

If Anne had come to Nurse Blainey willingly... if she'd felt she needed to come... Clara frowned and stepped over the cracked stone, trying and failing to resist the implications surging ahead at breakneck speed to threaten her overwhelm.

The brunette's head tilted slightly at her appearance, eyebrows squished at the center. "I didn't think I'd see you until tom...tomorrow."

The words wobbled at the precipice, close to falling. The little smile Anne had worn clenched at the corners, twisted to a grimace, and Clara didn't miss the slight flexion of her spine or the near-unconscious guarding of her abdomen. "Anne, is everything...has something happened? Do I need to get Ominis?"

"No....no, I'm fine. Everything's fine."

Fine.

Fine was a relative term.

Fine ignored the half-dug grave that clawed at her bones and waited to drag her under the dirt to lay alongside her parents. Fine ignored the skull that could be seen beneath paper-thin skin and the plum-dark bruises maintaining a permanent residence under her eyes. Fine ignored the curse barnacled to her cells, leeching what little life remained in her blood.

Fine was the lie Clara told herself over and over in the hope she might one day believe it.

Almost as quickly as it had started, Anne's grimace softened, tipped up, and curled at the corners. Her smile was nearly a perfect mirror of Sebastian's, in how it crinkled over her entire face, but more so in how it masked the pain that lingered beneath the surface.

Anne shifted her weight on the mattress. "I...I've been in contact with a Healer from St Mungo's, actually."

The words hardly had time to register coherently in Clara's mind before the click of a lock, and the scraping of wood over stone interrupted the flicker of her surprise, and Nurse Blainey's office door was pushed open.

Clara didn't recognize the man who stepped from within.

Tall and thin, he had hair the color of cornsilk and a haughty expression that might have rivaled the worst of Ominis' ill-tempered moods. Polished shoes clipped purposeful steps over the cracked floor with the precision of a metronome. Though the effect was somewhat lost in the slight sway of his hips. His gaze hovered over Clara for half a beat; the little flare of his nostrils and tightening of his lips were the only acknowledgments he'd seen her before his cold gray eyes shifted down to the clipboard and pad of documents extracted from inside a pristine leather satchel.

If the brunette had noticed his overly stiff posture, she gave no indication, tilting her head to the man who now stood only a few paces from them. "This is Healer Fawley. He's from a branch of St. Mungo's Spell Damage Department–Experimental Research and Development. We've been in contact recently, and ...well..." She trailed off and gestured vaguely for the man to continue.

Healer Fawley did not look as he spoke, his voice as clipped and sharp as his footsteps. "Our department studies the nature and progression of rare and unseen afflictions. Given the nature, and frankly the rarity of Miss Sallow's curse-"

Rarity.

It was another word that ignored the truth of Anne's condition. The curse was unheard of by any of the Healers assigned to her case and nowhere to be found in the nearly two years Sebastian had spent pouring indefatigably over every text he could pilfer from the restricted section.

"-We reached out some weeks ago in the hopes she might allow us to study it further, utilizing some methods we are in the early process of developing."

Study it? Clara blinked between the Healer, still pointedly fixed on his notes, and the brunette still perched on the edge of the bed. "Do you... do you mean to say you might...that you could find...?"

The word felt taboo against her tongue, and it died behind her teeth, but hope tasted like honey and lingered where the words could not be spoken.

Anne's lips turned down. "A cure isn't likely."

"Oh." Hope was fickle. Too sweet, and bitter dripped down to smother it. She should have known better, and crescents dug scarlet against her skin.

Distraction.

Healer Fawley's gaze snapped abruptly to Clara at the motion. Cold grey to her blue and flicked down to where her fingernails dug against the fragile skin at her wrist. Brows twitched together. It was gone as quickly as it had come, and his gaze returned to the clipboard as he spoke. "I am sorry I cannot assure a better outcome, but I will not make false promises."

Anne shivered despite the late summer heat but appeared otherwise unperturbed. Terminal had become a far too familiar concept. If not by way of the Healers, who'd failed to find a solution, then by way of Solomon, who had rejected all attempts to the contrary and repeatedly insisted on acceptance of the inevitable.

"We are hopeful, however, that it may offer some insight into other lesser-known curses and afflictions that still puzzle wizardkind. Though, if we make any progress or find anything promising that may aid Miss Sallow's condition, she will be the first to know."

Anne shrugged, a slight movement barely noticeable beneath her thick sweater and woolen scarf. "Provided they keep the tests minimally invasive and continue to meet me here rather than at St. Mungos, I've agreed to help."

Clara frowned. Leave it to Anne to refuse to enter a hospital when it came to saving her own life, only to leap at the opportunity as soon as it meant she might help someone else by doing so. Salazar Slytherin would be rolling in his grave. Though she supposed that was Anne. The brunette favored pity even less than Clara did. She'd had more years for it to sour. But this? What Fawley was asking for didn't smell like pity. Anne wasn't being worried and fussed over. The Healers weren't even focused on saving her; if anything, she was helping them.

"Elias?" Nurse Blainey was a small woman, barely taller than Clara, but years of looking after the health of rambunctious students had given her a presence that was hard to ignore. She bustled from her office; a thick folder clutched between her fingers. "Are you sure these are all the documents you'll need on Miss Sallow?"

Fawley took the folder without looking and nodded once- a short, curt motion. "Yes, Thank You, Noreen."

The nurse frowned. "I'm afraid they are somewhat out of date; perhaps you shou-"

"No." Fawley must have reviewed his notes at least a dozen times since leaving the nurse's office, but his eyes were locked, once again, on the document even as his hand snapped up to bat the question away.

Nurse Blainey raised her eyebrows, arms folded across her chest. The irritation spread so thickly over her features that Clara might have run a finger through it and licked away the frosting. "Very well. Do you require further assistance, Healer Fawley?"

Clara did not miss the shift in the nurse's tone, nor did Fawley, whose jaw had tensed slightly the curt addition of the title.

The man swallowed, glanced at the clock beside the door, and then at the petite woman. "These tests will be adequate for now. Thank you, Nurse Blainey. I would, however, like to gather a few vials of Miss Sallow's blood. If you'd be so kind as to collect those for me, I would greatly appreciate it. My skills in that area have grown somewhat lax in recent years."

Nurse Blainey huffed through her nose but otherwise did not respond. Instead, she glanced at Anne, who nodded her consent and pushed her sleeve up.

As though to mirror the cracks below their boots, the stark blue of Anne's veins traced spiderwebs under translucent skin. The thin woman didn't finch as the nurse made a small cut just below the junction of her elbow and siphoned the stream garnet into two glass vials.

Clara watched as Healer Fawley carefully secured the vials in an inner pouch of his satchel and fell into a brief discussion with the Hogwarts nurse.

"I will be seeing you tomorrow, won't I?" Something bumped Clara's shoulder, snapping her attention from where the vial of Anne's blood had disappeared into the Healer's bag.

"What?"

The brunette had stood from the bed and arched an eyebrow at the slightly shorter woman. "Tomorrow? It's Saturday. You're both still coming for dinner, aren't you?"

Understanding flooded spaces left by her confusion, and Clara nodded her agreement before her attention was again drawn to Healer Fawley. His face had taken on an air of bored disinterest, and his eyes darted in a steady triangle- from his notes to Nurse Blainey and up to the clock with near-dizzying repetition.

Anne chuckled softly and slid a thin arm through Clara's. She smelled sweet, like caramel, vanilla, and the dustings of baker's sugar that often adorned her freckles or the spaces between her knuckles. "The thing is-" she continued, head bent to Clara's ear "-I've not told Omi about this yet."

It was Clara's turn to raise her eyebrows.

Anne grimaced and looked down. "I didn't want to worry him. You know how he can get."

Any further discussion on the matter was interrupted as Healer Fawley abruptly tore himself away from Nurse Blainey's conversation. "Again, Thank You, Noreen. Miss Sallow, I will contact you shortly with plans for our next meeting."

Then Clara watched as the tall man turned on his heel and strode from the Hospital Wing. The sharp, methodical clip of his footsteps faltered only once when the toe of his polished boot caught the crumpled edge of a flagstone. He stumbled for a moment and disappeared down the hallway.

Nurse Blainey sighed and turned to the other two witches. "Miss Elmore, I'll see you in my office now, and Miss Sallow, you are welcome to use my fireplace to get back home if you'd rather not traverse the grounds to the apparition boundaries. I imagine you'd be quite exhausted walking that far."

Anne nodded, and they followed the petite woman

Her office existed in shades of chestnut and bronze. Bookshelves filled with charts, well-worn medical texts, and various anatomical models that moved and stretched as though to mirror living counterparts lined one wall. Locked cabinets filled with brightly colored potions- Wiggenwelds, Skele-gro, Pepper up, and several others were crammed against one another. And still, another wall was hung with certificates of licensure featuring the crossed wand and bone of St. Mungo's and additional anatomical drawings and diagrams. What books were not on the shelves had found themselves on the large mahogany desk at the center of the room and rested amongst stacks of student files that had not yet received proper documentation of recent visits.

With a little huff, the nurse settled behind her desk and pulled one of the unfinished files toward her.

Anne stepped to the fireplace and gathered a small handful of Floo powder from the pewter bowl in the bracket affixed to the wall. "Thank you again, Nurse Blainey. I do appreciate your allowing me to use your ward."

"Of course, my dear. You're welcome anytime." The nurse's eyes remained on the file in front of her, but the corners of her mouth quirked into a small smile.

Clara was wrapped in a sweet-smelling hug that might have crushed the breath from her lungs had Anne's body not been so frail, and the brunette vanished amid a rush of green flames.

The smooth cherrywood box scraped across the desk before the wash of green light vanished from the room. Slightly larger than Clara's palm and charmed to only open at her or Nurse Blainey's touch, Clara could already picture the five small vials, each slightly larger than her pinky finger and swirling with the tell-tale indigo and cerulean of Dreamless Sleep Draught.

"The nightmares have still not improved; I take it?"

She didn't question how Nurse Blainey had known. Showing up to her office first thing in the morning, before classes had even begun, must have been enough of an indication. Clara shifted on her feet, clenched her fingernails against the indentations on the underside of her wrist, and locked them against her skin. With the distraction of Anne no longer present, restless desire crushed between her knuckles and ached to uncurl her bones and stretch them out to snatch the square of cherrywood from the mahogany.

The break over the summer holidays had done little to temper her desire for the little swirling vials, and now that shattered peonies dripped with chamomile had joined the images of her nightmares, she hated how much more she wanted it.

Rest.

Peace.

Escape.

Clenched tighter, Clara felt the little 'pop' and sting as the skin broke beneath her fingernails.

Pain.

Distraction.

Control.

"No, they haven't."

She didn't feel pity knit beneath the nurse's furrowed brow as much as flickers of concern that tugged at the corners of her lips and darted her gaze between Clara's face and the small box perched on her desk. "Very well, do you remember the directions?

She forced her eyes away from the cherrywood to where Nurse Blainey sat behind her desk and rattled off the list she'd been instructed to memorize and required to recite every month with each new box of the precious liquid: "Do not exceed more than five vials every thirty days. Do not exceed more than one vial every three days. Do not take while under the influence of alcohol or combine with substances containing valerian root, and I'm to tell you straight away if I have any abrupt headaches or changes in vision."

Nurse Blainey nodded slowly, brown eyes locked against Clara's blue with a curious intensity. "Excellent, Miss Elmore. I trust you remember and understand the risks, and you will follow those instructions?"

Death.

That was the risk she'd been warned of repeatedly. Or rather, a state of unconsciousness so complete it would be impossible to wake. Students weren't given vials to use at their own discretion, but as Professor Black had put it, Clara was the Hero of Hogwarts. Surely she could be trusted with something like this, and undeserving of the title or not, she'd be hard-pressed to reject one of the few things that had offered relief from the nightmares.

Clara nodded.

She wasn't surprised when the nurse stood and, with a flick of her wand, a series of colorful glowing orbs appeared around Clara's head. It was a simple vital systems charm- one Clara could have conjured herself. The brown that had been so focused against blue shifted to the hovering orbs. Holding her wand aloft, Nurse Blainey began using her other hand to manipulate the orbs with quick, precise motions. "I take it you are still interested in continuing to assist me this term?"

It was not a question, though the upward inflection in the woman's voice begged a response, and Clara nodded her agreement. Once again, focused on the cherrywood box and the sharp sting against her wrist.

The glowing orbs dissipated, and Nuse Blainey pushed the box toward Clara. "I'll speak with Professor Weasley and Professor Sharp to arrange it into your timetable, and we'll be in contact shortly. Otherwise, I'll expect you back in thirty days with any vials you may have remaining."

Impatience tied strings to eager fingertips and leapt them forward to curl around the cherrywood. Another nod and assurance that Clara would adhere to the terms of her prescription and the sound of her boots tapped across the cracks and out to the corridor.

Clara already knew she wouldn't have any of the vials left when she returned in thirty days.

She never did.

[sporadiceagleheart]

4th of July edit and tribute to angels and missing kids Sirita Jimmina “BooBoo” Sotelo, Emma Ochsner, Saffie-Rose Brenda Roussos, Lily Peters, Lucy Morgan, Star Hobson, Olivia Pratt Korbel, Elizabeth Shelley, Sara Sharif, Charlotte Figi, Jersey Dianne Bridgeman, Sidra Hassouna, Sloan Mattingly, Audrii Cunningham, Ava Jordan Wood, Skylar Annette Neese, Lily Rose Diaz, Riley Faith Steep, Angela Bugay, Madeleine McCann, Inga Gehricke, Summer Wells, Haleigh Cummings, Morgan Nick, Shirley Temple, Judy Garland, Judith Barsi, Heather O'Rourke, Caroline Previdi and Catherine Violet Hubbard, Louis XVII, Emily Grace Jones, Makenna Lee Elrod, Eliahna Torres, Maite Rodriguez, Jackie Cazares, Layla Salazar, JonBenèt Ramsey, Destiny Riekeberg, Johnny Cash, John Denver, Michael Jackson, Alan Rickman, Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Toby Keith, Bing Crosby, Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. Seuss, Andre the Giant, Terry Funk, Bray Wyatt, Tristyn Bailey, Andy Griffith, Don Knotts, Lee Williams, Matthew Perry, Michael Gambon, Avicii, Young Dolph, Colonel Sanders, Fred Rogers, Christopher Plummer, Ed Asner, Ana Ofelia Murguía, Paul Newman, Madge Sinclair, Robert Guillaume, Emily Grace Navarra, Lois Janes, Rose Pizem, Gracie Perry Watson, Eybymia "Effie " Babanatsou, Lily, Katelyn Nicole Davis, God told Noah it's gonna rain, Ark, Serenity Gail Elmore, Ava Cole Nichols, Emilie Alice Parker, Bella Bond, Kaylee Jade Gonsalves and Madison and Rachel Joy Scott, Barney and friends, SpongeBob SquarePants, PAW Patrol, Annie, Uncle Sam, Lord Jesus Christ, Thomas Jefferson, Assassin's creed Brotherhood, come on sunshine let these wonderful fireworks down here happen today this is for all of the missing kids and angels in heaven right now get down here lord Let us Let you know what God told Noah it's gonna rain come on angels come on saffie rose has a birthday party up in heaven now she's happy with all of the support Aubreigh Wyatt case was sad about the court but this here is for saffie rose Roussos Y'all like that? Come on let's hear it for saffie rose now I got another edit after this one more time

[rich4a1]

Turn it up with Gerry Casey Show 267

Making a Scene Presents Turn it up with Gerry Casey’s Show #266 with his guest Sky Wood of The Blues Chapter Black Sabbath  Paranoid The New Roses  Attracted To Danger  The Jailbirds  Take Me Away  Johnny Mastro & Mamas Boys  Elmore James For President  Errol Linton  Shake Em On Down  The Revolutionaires  Honey Hush Clara Rose  Nobody’s Girl Johnny Gallagher  Scars & Stitches Ronan…

[goalhofer]

2024 olympics Canada roster

Archery

Eric Peters (Kitchener, Ontario)

Virginie Chénier (Montreal, Quebec)

Athletics

Eliezer Adjibi (Ottawa, Ontario)

Duan Asemota (Ajax, Ontario)

Aaron Brown (Toronto, Ontario)

Andre De Grasse (Markham, Ontario)

Brendon Rodney (Brampton, Ontario)

Christopher Morales (York, Ontario)

Marco Arop (Edmonton, Alberta)

Kieran Lumb (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Charles Philibert-Thiboutot (Quebec, Quebec)

Mohammed Ahmed (St. Catherines, Ontario)

Ben Flanagan (Kitchener, Ontario)

Thomas Fafard (Repentigny, Quebec)

Craig Thorne (Quispamsis, New Brunswick)

Jean-Simon Desgagnés (Quebec, Quebec)

Jerome Blake (Burnaby, British Columbia)

Cameron Levins (Courtenay, British Columbia)

Rory Linkletter (Flagstaff, Arizona)

Evan Dunfee (Richmond, British Columbia)

Rowan Hamilton (Chilliwack, British Columbia)

Ethan Katzberg (Kamloops, British Columbia)

Adam Keenan (Victoria, British Columbia)

Damian Warner (London, Ontario)

Marie-Éloïse Leclair (Montreal, Quebec)

Sade McCreath-Tardiel (Toronto, Ontario)

Jasneet Nijjar (Surrey, British Columbia)

Audrey Leduc (Gatineau, Quebec)

Jacqueline Madogo (Ottawa, Ontario)

Lauren Gale (Ottawa, Ontario)

Zoe Sherar (Toronto, Ontario)

Jazz Shukla (Toronto, Ontario)

Kate Current (Cobourg, Ontario)

Simone Plourde (Montreal, Quebec)

Lucia Stafford (Toronto, Ontario)

Briana Scott (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Regan Yee (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Mariam Abdul-Rashid (Oshawa, Ontario)

Michelle Harrison (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)

Savannah Sutherland (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)

Ceili McCabe (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Malindi Elmore (Kelowna, British Columbia)

Crystal Emmanuel-Ahye (Toronto, Ontario)

Kyra Constantine (Brampton, Ontario)

Aiyanna Stiverne (Laval, Quebec)

Olivia Lundman (Nanaimo, British Columbia)

Camryn Rogers (Richmond, British Columbia)

Anicka Newell (Albuquerque, New Mexico)

Alysha Newman (London, Ontario)

Sarah Mitton (Queens Municipality, Nova Scotia)

Badminton

Brian Yang (Richmond Hill, Ontario)

Adam Dong (Burlington, Ontario)

Nyl Yakura (Toronto, Ontario)

Michelle Li (Markham, Ontario)

Basketball

Luguentz Dort (Montreal, Quebec)

Nickeil Alexander-Walker (Vaughan, Ontario)

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (Hamilton, Ontario)

Melvin Ejim (Rocky View County, Alberta)

Jamal Murray (Orangeville, Ontario)

Dwight Powell (Toronto, Ontario)

Trey Lyles (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)

R.A. Barrett; Jr. (Mississauga, Ontario)

Kelly Olynyk (Kamloops, British Columbia)

Andrew Nembhard (Vaughan, Ontario)

Dillon Brooks (Mississauga, Ontario)

Khem Birch (Russell Township, Ontario)

Shay Colley (Brampton, Ontario)

Samantha Hill (Toronto, Ontario)

Kia Nurse (Hamilton, Ontario)

Bridget Carleton (Chatham-Kent, Ontario)

Cassandre Prosper (Ottawa, Ontario)

Yvonne Ejim (Rocky View County, Alberta)

Natalie Achonwa (Guelph, Ontario)

Syla Swords (Sudbury, Ontario)

Kayla Alexander (Milton, Ontario)

Laeticia Amihere (Mississauga, Ontario)

Nirra Fields (Montreal, Quebec)

Aaliyah Edwards (Kingston, Ontario)

Kacie Bosch (Lethbridge, Alberta)

Paige Crozon (Humboldt, Saskatchewan)

Katherine Plouffe (Edmonton, Alberta)

Michelle Plouffe (Edmonton, Alberta)

Boxing

Wyatt Sanford (Montreal, Quebec)

Tammara Thibeault (Saint-Georges, Quebec)

Breakdancing

Phil Kim (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Canoeing

Alex Baldoni (Pau, France)

Connor Fitzpatrick (Dartmouth, Nova Scotia)

Laurent Lavigne (Trois-Rivières, Quebec)

Nicholas Matveev (Toronto, Ontario)

Simon McTavish (Sydney, Australia)

Pierre-Luc Poulin (Quebec, Quebec)

Lois Betteridge (Ottawa, Ontario)

Sophia Jensen (Chelsea, Quebec)

Sloan MacKenzie (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Katie Vincent (Mississauga, Ontario)

Michelle Russell (Halifax Municipality, Nova Scotia)

Toshka Besharah-Hrebacka (Ottawa, Ontario)

Natalie Davison (Ottawa, Ontario)

Riley Melanson (Dartmouth, Nova Scotia)

Courtney Stott (Pickering, Ontario)

Cycling

Derek Gee (Ottawa, Ontario)

Michael Woods (Toronto, Ontario)

Tyler Rorke (Wilmot Township, Ontario)

Nick Wammes (Chatham-Kent, Ontario)

James Hedgcock (Hamilton, Ontario)

Dylan Bibic (Mississauga, Ontario)

Michael Foley (Milton, Ontario)

Mathis Guillemette (Trois-Rivières, Quebec)

Carson Mattern (Hamilton, Ontario)

Gunnar Holmgren (Oro-Medonte Township, Ontario)

Jeffrey Whaley (L'Assomption, Quebec)

Olivia Baril (Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec)

Alison Jackson (Vermilion, Alberta)

Lauriane Genest (Montreal, Quebec)

Kelsey Mitchell (Strathcona County, Alberta)

Sarah Orban (Calgary, Alberta)

Erin Attwell (Victoria, British Columbia)

Ariane Bonhomme (Gatineau, Quebec)

Maggie Coles-Lyster (Maple Ridge, British Columbia)

Sarah Van Dam (Victoria, British Columbia)

Isabella Holmgren (Oro-Medonte Township, Ontario)

Molly Simpson (Red Deer, Alberta)

Diving

Rylan Wiens (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)

Nathan Zsombor-Murray (Pointe-Claire, Quebec)

Margo Erlam (Calgary, Alberta)

Caeli McKay (Montreal, Quebec)

Kate Miller (Ottawa, Ontario)

Equestrian

Chris Van Martels (Chatham-Kent, Ontario)

Karl Slezak (Tottenham, Ontario)

Mike Winter (Montreal, Quebec)

Mario Deslauriers (Venise-En-Quebec, Quebec)

Camille Carier-Bergeron (Laval, Quebec)

Naïma Laliberté-Moreira (Montreal, Quebec)

Jessica Phoenix (Uxbridge Township, Ontario)

Erynn Ballard (Caledon, Ontario)

Amy Millar (Perth, Ontario)

Fencing

Nicholas Zhang (Richmond, British Columbia)

Blake Broszus (San José, California)

Daniel Gu (Edmonton, Alberta)

Maximilien Van Haaster (Montreal, Quebec)

Fares Arfa (Laval, Quebec)

François Cauchon (Montreal, Quebec)

Shaul Gordon (Richmond, British Columbia)

Ruien Xiao (Markham, Ontario)

Jessica Guo (Toronto, Ontario)

Eleanor Harvey (Hamilton, Ontario)

Yunjia Zhang (Toronto, Ontario)

Pamela Brind'Amour (Sainte-Martine, Quebec)

Golf

Corey Connors (Jupiter, Florida)

Nick Taylor (Abbotsford, British Columbia)

Brooke Henderson (Naples, Florida)

Alena Sharp (Phoenix, Arizona)

Gymnastics

Zachary Clay (Chilliwack, British Columbia)

René Cournoyer (Repentigny, Quebec)

Félix Dolci (Saint-Eustache, Quebec)

William Émard (Laval, Quebec)

Samuel Zakutney (Montreal, Quebec)

Elsabeth Black (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Shallon Olsen (Tuscaloosa, Alabama)

Cassie Lee (Toronto, Ontario)

Ava Stewart (Bowmanville, Ontario)

Aurélie Tran (Repentigny, Quebec)

Sophiane Méthot (Varennes, Quebec)

Judo

Arthur Margelidon (Montreal, Quebec)

François Gauthier-Drapeau (Alma, Quebec)

Shady Elnahas (Toronto, Ontario)

Ana Portuondo (La Prairie, Quebec)

Kelly Deguchi (Lethbridge, Alberta)

Christina Deguchi (Lethbridge, Alberta)

Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard (Saint-Hubert, Quebec)

Rowing

Jennifer Casson (Victoria, British Columbia)

Jill Moffatt (Victoria, British Columbia)

Abby Dent (Kenora, Ontario)

Caileigh Filmer (Saanich, British Columbia)

Kasia Gruchalla-Wesierski (Calgary, Alberta)

Maya Meschkuleit (Mississauga, Ontario)

Sydney Paine (Toronto, Ontario)

Jessica Sevick (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Kristina Walker (Frontenac Islands Township, Ontario)

Avalon Wasteneys (Victoria, British Columbia)

Kristen Kit (St. Catherines, Ontario)

Rugby

Caroline Crossley (New Westminster, British Columbia)

Olivia Apps (Victoria, British Columbia)

Alysha Corrigan (Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island)

Asia Hogan-Rochester (Toronto, Ontario)

Chloe Daniels (Langford, British Columbia)

Charity Williams (Victoria, British Columbia)

Florence Symonds (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Carissa Norsten (Waldheim, Saskatchewan)

Krissy Scurfield (Canmore, Alberta)

Fancy Bermudez (Edmonton, Alberta)

Piper Logan (Calgary, Alberta)

Keyara Wardley (Victoria, British Columbia)

Sailing

Justin Barnes (Pickering, Ontario)

Will Jones (Hamilton, Ontario)

Sarah Douglas (Toronto, Ontario)

Emily Bugeja (North Vancouver, British Columbia)

Antonia Lewin-LaFrance (Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia)

Georgia Lewin-LaFrance (Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia)

Shooting

Tye Ikeda (Calgary, Alberta)

Michele Esercitato (Calgary, Alberta)

Shannon Westlake (Georgina, Ontario)

Skateboarding

Cordano Russell (Carlsbad, California)

Matt Berger (Huntington Beach, California)

Ryan Decenzo (Delta, British Columbia)

Fay De Fazio-Ebert (Toronto, Ontario)

Soccer

Kailen Sheridan (Whitby, Ontario)

Gabrielle Carle (Lévis, Quebec)

Kadeisha Buchanan (Brampton, Ontario)

Evelyne Viens (L'Ancienne-Lorette, Quebec)

Rebecca Quinn (Toronto, Ontario)

Cloé Lacasse (Sudbury, Ontario)

Julia Grosso (Burnaby, British Columbia)

Jayde Riviere (Markham, Ontario)

Jordyn Huitema (Chilliwack, British Columbia)

Ashley Lawrence (Toronto, Ontario)

Adriana Leon (King Township, Ontario)

Jade Rose (Markham, Ontario)

Simi Awujo (Atlanta, Georgia)

Vanessa Gilles (Châteauguay, Quebec)

Nichelle Prince (Ajax, Ontario)

Janine Beckie (Douglas County, Colorado)

Jessie Fleming (London, Ontario)

Sabrina D'Angelo (Welland, Ontario)

Shelina Zadorsky (London, Ontario)

Surfing

Sanoa Dempfle-Olin (Tofino, British Columbia)

Swimming

Josh Liendo-Edwards (Toronto, Ontario)

Yuri Kisil (Calgary, Alberta)

Javier Acevedo (Toronto, Ontario)

Blake Tierney (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)

Ilya Kharun (Las Vegas, Nevada)

Finlay Knox (Okotoks, Alberta)

Tristan Jankovics (Puslinch Township, Ontario)

Alex Axon (Newmarket, Ontario)

Jeremy Bagshaw (Victoria, British Columbia)

Patrick Hussey (Beaconsfield, Quebec)

Lorne Wigginton (Calgary, Alberta)

Apollo Hess (Lethbridge, Alberta)

Audrey Lamothe (Montreal, Quebec)

Jacqueline Simoneau (Saint-Laurent, Quebec)

Scarlett Finn (Toronto, Ontario)

Joannie Newman (Grande Prairie, Alberta)

Raphaelle Plante (Quebec City, Quebec)

Kenzie Priddell (Regina, Saskatchewan)

Claire Scheffel (Brantford, Ontario)

Florence Tremblay (Rimouski, Quebec)

Taylor Ruck (Scottsdale, Arizona)

Maggie MacNeil (London, Ontario)

Mary-Sophie Harvey (Trois-Rivières, Quebec)

Summer McIntosh (Toronto, Ontario)

Kylie Masse (Windsor, Ontario)

Ingrid Wilm (Calgary, Alberta)

Regan Rathwell (Ottawa, Ontario)

Sophie Angus (Toronto, Ontario)

Sydney Pickrem (Dunedin, Florida)

Kelsey Wog (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

Rebecca Smith (Red Deer, Alberta)

Ella Jansen (Burlington, Ontario)

Penny Oleksiak (Toronto, Ontario)

Brooklyn Douthwright (Riverview, New Brunswick)

Julie Brousseau (Ottawa, Ontario)

Emma O'Croinin (Edmonton, Alberta)

Emma Finlin (Edmonton, Alberta)

Table tennis

Edward Ly (Lachine, Quebec)

Eugene Wang (Aurora, Ontario)

Jeremy Hazin (Richmond Hill, Ontario)

Mo Zhang (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Taekwondo

Josipa Kafadar (Burnaby, British Columbia)

Skylar Park (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

Tennis

Félix Auger-Aliassime (Monte Carlo, Monaco)

Miloš Raonić (Monte Carlo, Monaco)

Bianca Andreescu (Vaughan, Ontario)

Leylah Fernandez (Boynton Beach, Florida)

Gaby Dabrowski (Ottawa, Ontario)

Triathlon

Tyler Mislawchuk (Macdonald Municipality, Manitoba)

Claude Paquet (Port-Cartier, Quebec)

Emy Legault (Montreal, Quebec)

Volleyball

Daniel Dearing (Toronto, Ontario)

Sammy Schachter (Richmond Hill, Ontario)

Luke Herr (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

Nick Hoag (Sherbrooke, Quebec)

Brodie Hofer (Langley, British Columbia)

Danny Demyanenko (Toronto, Ontario)

Stephen Maar (Aurora, Ontario)

Brett Walsh (Calgary, Alberta)

Xander Ketrzynski (Toronto, Ontario)

Lucas Van Berkel (Edmonton, Alberta)

Arthur Szwarc (Toronto, Ontario)

Justin Lui (Pickering, Ontario)

Fynn McCarthy (Lake Country Municipality, British Columbia)

Eric Loeppky (Steinbach, Manitoba)

Melissa Humaña-Paredes (Toronto, Ontario)

Brandie Wilkerson (Toronto, Ontario)

Heather Bansley (Toronto, Ontario)

Sophie Bukovec (Toronto, Ontario)

Water polo

Jessica Gaudreault (Ottawa, Ontario)

Rae Lekness (Calgary, Alberta)

Axelle Crevier (Montreal, Quebec)

Emma Wright (Whitby, Ontario)

Marilia Mimides (Toronto, Ontario)

Blaire McDowell (Fernie, British Columbia)

Verica Bakoc (Toronto, Ontario)

Elyse Lemay-Lavoie (Montreal, Quebec)

Hayley McKelvey (Delta, British Columbia)

Serena Browne (Montreal, Quebec)

Kindred Paul (Spruce Grove, Alberta)

Shae La Roche (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

Clara Vulpisi (Montreal, Quebec)

Weightlifting

Boady Santavy (Sarnia, Ontario)

Maude Charron (Rimouski, Quebec)

Wrestling

Alex Moore (Montreal, Quebec)

Amar Dhesi (Surrey, British Columbia)

Hannah Taylor (Cornwall, Prince Edward Island)

Ana Godinez (Burnaby, British Columbia)

Linda Morais (Tecumseh, Ontario)

Justina Di Stasio (Coquitlam, British Columbia)

[dailypsyren]

[himetsuri]

another call 1 Birth of the Crimson Lotus cover

[little-boys-with-rifles]

Welcome to G.R.O.S.S!

It looks like Calvin found something he shouldn't have...

Characters:

In an alternate universe of Calvin and Hobbes, The Supreme ruler and Dictator-for-life and his trusty first officer/president(Who in this alternate reality is alive[Don't question it]), led a group of soldiers (he had a few friends in this reality) deep into the "Jungle" for an exploratory mission. The jungle was just the woods behind his house.

Suddenly, one of his men (whose name has been stricken from G.R.O.S.S records) fell through a patch of loose dirt. What he found? An underground complex, long abandoned, made by some unknown race. The president and a detachment of three men stood guard, while Calvin led an expedition into the winding, labyrinthine halls.

All rooms were empty but one, obscured by fabric and debris. What they found inside would change the course of history.

And lo, beyond the gate stretched an infinite plane of wooden stools. After about 2 days, the portal shut down. You can guess what they did with it after that.

MEET THEM ALL:

Infantry: The Backbone of G.R.O.S.S. Usually operate behind the world's prying eye, and rely on such groups as the government and SCP foundation to stay out of the cameras. Wield unusual energy weapons that, when fired at living beings, will cause sudden pains! Goes from "Griffin's knee" to "Taser". Their armor is constructed of...something, that seems to be indestructible, and their gas mask filters out most lethal toxins.

Public Relations Infantry: These guys have the unfortunate roles of being the facade G.R.O.S.S puts up. They are very poorly armed, bringing to bear a wide variety of sad-looking airsoft armaments. Their only claim to fame is possessing the worlds only fully-functional airsoft vehicles, including tanks, armored cars, and a number of drones. The more fortunate ones serve as scouts in the main bulk of the force.

*Riotman: It was a tough decision to allow twelve year olds join the ranks, but a role was eventually found for them as a kind of rudimentary security.

Cadet: Calvin decided to shape new recruits in his image frm day one, giving them his signature striped red shirt and paper hat. Put through grueling runs through forested areas and almost dictatorial bedtimes, these guys are put through the ringer.

Officer: Just what you'd expect. Command squads of Infantry, and form a sort of UnderCouncil to the Higher Order. There are two rankups to the officer class, being the "El Capitan", and the "Significantly Large Cheese".

WHCA: Designed by Lord Darwin Watterson of Elmore X-0056, The Watterson Heavy Combat Armor is constructed of duralumin, padded on the inside to prevent blunt force injury, giving it twice the strength of a bear suit. In the wrist, a laser provides an offensive armament.

The Killbot:

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This is an RP blog about Calvin and Hobbes, so some things should be abundantly clear.

No NSFW.

No Godmodding, this usually ruins the whole experience.

Standard DNI

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This map has a lot of issues, so I spent an unnecessary amount of time fact-checking all the shows and where they're located. Places in "italicised quotes" aren't real places. Using the "town, state" format even for big cities to make things clearer. I know probably too much about American geography for someone who's never been there, and I still get confused.

CORRECT

Molly of Denali: "Qyah", Alaska Clarence: "Aberdale", Arizona South Park: "South Park", Colorado The Amazing World of Gumball: "Elmore", California Sit Down, Shut Up: "Knob Haven", Florida Squidbillies: "Dougal County", Georgia Lilo & Stitch: The Series: Unnamed locality in Kauai, Hawaii Napoleon Dynamite: Preston, Idaho Twelve Forever: "Bethune", Iowa Courage the Cowardly Dog: "Nowhere", Kansas Hoops: "Lenwood", Kentucky Bunnicula: New Orleans, Louisiana The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper: Friendship, Maine Craig of the Creek: "Herkleton", Maryland The Loud House: "Royal Woods", Michigan The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends: "Frostbite Falls", Minnesota Ellen's Acres: A hotel outside Tonopah, Nevada Assy McGee: Exeter, New Hamspshire Kid Cosmic: Unnamed town, New Mexico Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: New York, New York Big Mouth: Westchester County, New York The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants: Piqua, Ohio Gravity Falls: Gravity Falls, Oregon Arthur: "Elwood City", Pennsylvania (confirmed by the show's official Twitter) Little Bill: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Family Guy: "Quahog", Rhode Island The Legend of Calamity Jane: Deadwood, South Dakota King of the Hill: "Arlen", Texas (Didn't even look this one up until I needed the city name) Beavis and Butt-Head: "Highland", Texas (The state wasn't made explicit until the 2022 movie Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe) American Dad!: "Langley Falls", Virginia Rick and Morty: Somewhere outside Seattle, Washington

CORRECT, BUT

The Owl House: "Gravesfield", Connecticut (Much more heavily set in Bonesborough in the Boiling Isles, which is not a real place, though a few episodes do return to Gravesfield) Steven Universe: "Beach City", "Delmarva" (The landmasses are a little different in the universe of Steven... Universe, and the state of Delaware doesn't exist, but an official map labels the body of water north of Beach City as Rehoboth Bay, which is a real bay in Delaware, and would put Beach City in the same location as the real-world Long Neck, Delaware) (RIP to everything south of Indian River Bay, though) Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman: Boston, Massachusetts (This is a live action kid's game show with an animated host, so I'm not sure it qualifies as an animated series) Infinity Train: North Branch, Minnesota (The show is set on a magical train that travels through an otherworldly desert. The main human character of the first season is from Minnesota, but she spends almost the entire season trapped on the train, and the other seasons follow different characters, and generally spend even less time on Earth) Futurama: "New New York", "New New York" (New New York City is explicitly built over the ruins of its real-world counterpart, and is basically New York But Futuristic)

IMPLIED

Rugrats: Unnamed city (All indications point to California) Garfield and Friends: Unnamed City (Garfield is very occasionally stated to take place in Muncie, Indiana, where its creator Jim Davis lives, but I don't know if the Garfield and Friends show ever brings this up. I don't think US Acres was ever given a location) Bob's Burgers: "Seymour's Bay" (Evidence points to New Jersey, but it's never made explicit) (I'm finding conflicting things on whether Seymour's Bay is the canon name or an out-of-universe nickname) Jimmy Neutron: "Retroville" (A Texas number plate is visible in the movie, and a line on a map showing a trip the characters take in one episode clearly starts in Texas. Otherwise, the state is never specified)

UNCLEAR

Recess: Unnamed city (One episode has the kids take the Arkansas Elementary School Achievement Test, which is the basis for it being put in Arkansas in this map. Coordinates given in another episode would put the school in Pennsylvania) Regular Show: "City" (A few things indicate California, including the state flag being visible in one episode, but other things contradict this and place it further east) Curious George: "City" (The location was never given in the books, but the show has a line that says that the airport the characters are currently at is in Chicago, Illinois) The Boondocks: "Woodcrest" (The comic strip is definitely set in Maryland, but the show has some indications early on that it's set in Chicago, Illinois, with the exception of an episode where the main characters fly back to Chicago to attend a funeral. Later episodes imply that the show is set in Maryland) The Chicken Squad: Unnamed locality (An episode about a lost phone implies that the show is set in North Dakota. I can't find much more than that) Harvey Girls Forever!: "Harvey Street" (One episode includes a view from space of a bright light on the street, but the location is vague, and looks more like Missouri than Oklahoma to me. A showrunner confirmed on Twitter that this shot did not mean the show was set in Kansas, and that the street is actually "located in the great state of… oops, out of characters!") Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: "The Neighborhood of Make-Believe" (Disclaimer: I never saw Mr Rogers' Neighborhood because it's an extremely North American thing. But I think the title neighbourhood was literally supposed to be Fred Rogers' neighbourhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, while the Neighborhood of Make-Believe was always an imaginary place with no real-world counterpart.) Peanuts: Unnamed City (I'm not sure which Peanuts animated series this is on the map, but the comics never make the location explicit. The closest is a strip from 1957, in which Lucy shows off a trophy that names her "Outstanding Fussbudget of Hennepin County". That would place the setting in Minnesota, in or near Minneapolis. But a later strip from 1963 introduces a character named 555 95472, whose surname has been changed to his ZIP code. ZIP code 95472 is in Sebastopol, California, where Charles Shultz's studio was.) Hey Arnold!: "Hillwood" (There are a lot of indications that the series takes place in the US part of the Pacific Northwest, so Oregon, Washington or Idaho. And at the end of one episode, Helga and her mother are seen driving past a "Welcome To Washington State" sign when returning from out of state. But there are also some implications that it takes place in New York City, particularly with the architecture, and the way the school is numbered)

DEFINITELY INCORRECT

Sniz & Fondue: Unnamed locality (Only source on being located in Missouri seems to be an addition to the Wikipedia page in November 2006 with no edit reason given) Big City Greens: "Big City" (The show is based in part on the creators' childhood in rural Michigan, but the show itself never mentions a state.) (If Michigan gets Big City Greens, might as well give Alabama Phineas and Ferb for similar reasons. Give the south something.) Sheep in the Big City: "The Big City" (Only source on being located in Missouri seems to be an addition to the Wikipedia page in January 2010) with no edit reason given) Daria: "Lawndale" (The setting of the show is unclear, but it doesn't appear to be set in Texas. The setting is extremely urban northeast, in my opinion. In an interview, one of the show creators said that he thought of the setting as being a mid-Atlantic suburb, and gave Maryland and Pennsylvania as possible locations. The idea that the show is in Texas seems to be based on the show being a spin-off of Beavis and Butt-Head, but Daria's family explicitly moved to Lawndale from Highland at the beginning of the first episode.) Chalkzone: "Plainville" (Only source on being located in Wisconsin seems to be an addition to the Wikipedia page in November 2006 with no edit reason given)

OTHER POSSIBILITIES (not on the map)

-The Ace Ventura: Pet Detective cartoon is set in Miami, Florida, and has a lot more episodes than Sit Down, Shut up -The Beetlejuice cartoon is set in "Peaceful Pines", Connecticut, and has more episodes than the Owl House, as well as seeming to spend more time in the real world. -I don't know much about China, IL, but it is unambiguously set in Illinois, unlike Curious George, or the Boondocks. Has less episodes than either of those, though. -Soul Eater is set in "Death City", Nevada, and only has one less episode than Ellen's Acres, with double the running time. -If Big Mouth is a runner-up for New York, Archer should be too. Even discounting the seasons that moved the setting to Los Angeles, or Los Angeles but in the 40s, or a fictional Pacific Island, or space, it's got more episodes than Big Mouth. -The animated show set in the District of Columbia with the most episodes is either Our Cartoon President, or Freakazoid!, depending on how you define an episode. Couldn't find anything for any of the US's overseas territories.

Longest Running Cartoon Set in Each State (based off of number of episodes)

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